TikiTag Week

On this week I joined with Miray to work with the RFID technology called TikiTag.

This is a company that created a user-friendly way to use RFID tags using a Internet application, a reader and some RFID stikers.

Being in development the funcionalities of this product are still very few, so we had to stick to some sort action that could be made or faked with the TikiTag.

Until the middle of the week we should came up with 10 ideas so then we could choose one and develop it.

presentation

We chose to combine two of the ideas using the mood cups and the idea that people like custom objects and to be able to customize their own objects.

The cups would be bought on the Internet. They have an anthropomorphic shape of a head in the cups but no moods are related to them being the buyer the one that choose what kind of mood the cup transmit to them. The user can also choose on the Internet default graphics to be printed on them or buy them without graphics like a blank canvas and the user can paint them, an analogy to the collectible designer vinyl toys.

The user would have a table with a graphic image that tells them where he should put the cup to activate it. Beneath the table top would be a tikitag reader, a media centre and loudspeakers.

The user when choose a cup to have a drink can set the mood of the cup and draw on it. When he place the cup on the table the reader reads the RFID tag making the media centre creates a random music play list connected with the same mood of the cup. Whenever you pass the cup on it you can change the song.

The concept of the cup can be used not only for moods giving the possibility to the user the ability to set is own parameters like instead of mood it could be music styles or instruments.